WW archive > Issue 607 - 12 January 2006
Maverick George Galloway offends SWP sensibilities
George Galloway's decision to try his hand at 'reality' TV as a Big brother contestant has thrown Respect and the Socialist Workers Party into disarray, to put it mildly. Peter Manson reports
Letters
Clunky prose; Iraq slaughter; Population point; Temperance; Vote for John; Hypocrisy; Kong-connected; Back on track; Wasted effort; Kennedy effect; DSP front; PRC principle; Venezuela
Rumblings of rebellion
SW Kenning reports on last weekend's SWP conference
Bolivia shifts left
Which effect will Evo Morales' victory have on the working class and the political landscape in South America? Eddie Ford takes a closer look
Take control of the Bolivarian revolution
Nick Rogers disputes Paul Hampton's assertion that the Chavez regime is Bonapartist and calls for a radical transfer of power to the working class
Faith schools too hot for SWP
The left must takes this issue seriously, says Michelle Euston. After all, faith schools are envisaged in the government's white paper on education as a wedge to break up comprehensive education system
Dying on its feet
Around 150 people gathered in the Konferenzhaus in Vienna to prepare for the next European Social Forum, which will take place in Athens on May 4-7 2006. Rifondazione Comunista's turn to government hung over the event like a Damocles sword - together with an unwillingness to take any decisive steps forward. Tina Becker fears that we might be witnessing the beginning of the end of the ESF as a vehicle for international cooperation
Learning from defeat
Panayotis Yulis is a representative of the Network for Political and Social Rights in Greece (Epohi), which works with immigrants and political prisoners. He is a member of the Greek Social Forum and on the organising committee for the ESF in Athens
Domination theology
Paul Greenaway reviews Richard Dawkins's The root of all evil? (Channel 4, Monday January 9 and 16, 8pm)
Scramble for centre ground
Emily Bransom comments on the resignation of Charles Kennedy
Less than gorgeous
Is it possible for working class politicians to utilise an established cultural form, designed for a completely different purpose, in order to bolster an oppositional message? Lawrence Parker takes a look at Galloway in the Big brother house